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01662aam a2200313 i 4500 001 0EE130A2AC1A11E890AE142197128E48 003 SILO 005 20180830010042 007 n 008 171002s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 184994430X 020 $a 9781849944304 040 $d IaMp $e rda $d SILO 245 1 $a Everything you know about space is wrong / $c by Matt Brown. 264 1 $a London : $b Batsford, $c 2018. 300 $a 160 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm. 500 $a Includes index. 500 $a Think that the vacuum of space would make your blood boil and your head explode? (It wonât.) Or that astronauts float in space because of zero gravity? (Noâtheyâre not floating, theyâre falling.) Thanks to sci-fi films and TV shows, most of us have many misconceptions about the cosmosâfrom traveling through wormholes to blowing up asteroids. Chock-full of facts about the universe and how it works, this illuminating book guides you through the mine of misinformation to answer such questions as whether we will meet aliens in our lifetime (SETI predicts we'll find evidence of ET by 2040!), what happens in the center of the black hole, and why Mercury is not the hottest planet in the solar system. 541 $d 20180523. 650 $a Cosmology $v Miscellanea. 650 $a Outer space $x $x $x 650 $a Outer space $x Exploration. 650 $a Outer space $v Miscellanea. 650 $a Outer space $v Pictorial works. 650 $a Astronomy. 700 $a Brown, Matthew. 941 $a 1 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20180830011136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0EE130A2AC1A11E890AE142197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search